Tuesday Headlines: Primary Day Edition
Do you hear that?
It’s the sound of journalists and political operatives growing premature gray hairs. In other words, it’s primary day in New York.
Key voices in New York transportation and the livable streets movement, as well as villains in both arenas, will see their political fates decided. Polls close at 9 p.m. and although line lengths vary, what else was there to do on a Tuesday?
Elsewhere in the Empire State:
- Western New York bus riders who travel to and from SUNY Buffalo State University or Amherst are in for new commutes now that the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority announced changes. (The Buffalo News)
- Buffalo officials hope an upgraded computer system will net millions in unpaid traffic fines. In recent years, there has been a shortfall between expected tickets for traffic and parking violations and what was actually collected. (The Buffalo News)
- Assembly Member Jon Rivera (D-Buffalo) and state Sen. Jeremy Zellner (D-Buffalo) are taking their respective primary campaigns into overdrive. (BTPM)
- Niagara Street in Buffalo got $3 million through the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York to fund infrastructure improvements. (BTPM)
- Rep. Joe Morelle (D-Rochester) is comfortably outspending his primary challengers. (Rochester Beacon)
- State Sen. Pete Oberacker (R-Schenevus) needs to fend off a challenger before he makes it to the general election in the 19th Congressional District. (WSKG)
- The future of the 129th Assembly District has Central New York voters energized. (The Syracuse Post-Standard)
- The answer to Albany’s next bus terminal could lie under the Empire State Plaza. (The Times Union)
- Can President Trump’s endorsement outweigh nasty politics in the 21st Congressional District’s Republican primary? (NCPR)
- The Port Jervis railroad turntable may have a future after all. (Mid Hudson News)
- A perfect storm is brewing for World Cup commuters this week. (The New York Post)
- Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie is taking care of his members with campaign donations this cycle. (City & State)
- Rep. Mike Lawler (R-Rockland) remains a chaos agent regardless of his presence in a race. (Politico New York)
- A new development that would link the Ronkonkoma LIRR station with MacArthur Airport has a murky future ahead. (Newsday)
- Rep. Dan Goldman (D-Manhattan) is catching hate from a coffee shop in his district. (The New York Times)
- A bicyclist was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center in critical condition on Sunday morning after being hit by a pickup truck on Route 9 near Horton Road in Putnam County. (Highland Current)
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